PSYCH 241H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Universal Grammar, Verbal Behavior, Pragmatics
26 Sep 2017
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Speakers of one language can learn another. English uses roughly 45 off 200 sounds found across the world"s language. Phoneme: smallest unit of sound in speech. Infants learn very early on that strings of phonemes are more likely to carry meaning. Infants (<18m) often map gestures or nonverbal sounds onto novel objects. 20-26m olds, however, accept only words as names than other sounds. Development of learning through reinforcement and punishment of overt behavior. Parents teach children to speak by means of the reinforcement. A review of b. f. skinner"s verbal behavior (1959) We can understand and produce sentences that we have never heard before (generativity) It"s very rare that parents would correct them. Despite many surface differences between world"s languages, the underlying. Humans are born with a universal grammar structures are fundamentally similar using lad), while nonhumans do not. Chomsky uses words specifically; believed we have various forms of language through lad.
